Stage Name |
Birth Name |
| Gerturde
Hay Hoffman |
Kitty
Hayes |
| Gerturde
Hoffman |
|
-Founder and choreographer for the 'Hoffman Girls'. The 'Hoffman
Glide' (a social dance) was named after her. Her
choreography and special dance efx brought her high praise.In
1912 she starred in The New York Winter Garden Company of 125
Performance at The Parson's Theater, Springfield, MA. Thursday,
Jan. 30.
-Famous
for her role and dancing in Salome.
Later, for a brief period in her career, Gertrude would do impersonations
of various actors and dancers, which was highly popular at the
time. Gertrude helped to make Salome a popular role in the early
1900s, but as with most Salome dancers of the time (circa 1907),
her show was stopped due to her indecent dancing.
-The Gertrude Hoffman Girls were a Tiller type formation group
that used a type of athletic acrobatic transformation of the chorus
girl with kicks, leaps etc. Hoffman was once in a law suit by
Gregory C. Gusman (a dance teacher) over the teaching of the Rumba
to the girls which they won.
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